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MSC enhances its Batumi – Gioia Tauro service

Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – Batumi International Container Terminal (BICT), part of International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI)...

Trieste Marine Terminal offers direct rail link with Burghausen

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) April 4, 2024 – Rail Cargo Group’s TransFER is now offering a weekly block train connection for intermodal flows of...

COSCO SHIPPING calls at Eurofos, Marseille

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 3, 2024 – COSCO SHIPPING has started calls at the Eurofos terminal in Marseille as part of the AEM1, MD2 and MED 1...

Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd’s Gemini Cooperation to rely on 15 main ports

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) March 30, 2024 – Fifteen ports will play a key role in A.P. Moller-Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd’s Gemini...

A new rail cargo service – Shijiazhuang, northern China, Belgrade

Belgrade, Serbia (Ports Europe) March 29, 2024 – A new rail cargo service between Shijiazhuang (capital of Hebei Province in northern China) and Belgrade...

First train leaves Kazak terminal in Xian, China for Kazakhstan

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) March 27, 2024 – The first train has departed a Kazakhstan-owned logistics centre in China’s dry port of Xian along...

Ukrainian Danube Shipping plans combined transport service

Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 20, 2024 – PJSC Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company (UDP) plans to offer a combined transport service at a single rate...

M&M opens an office near the port of Sète, France

Sète, France (Ports Europe) March 18, 2024 – M&M France has opened an office near the port of Sète, with the purpose of expanding business links...

Container train St. Petersburg-Novorossiysk by FESCO

St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) March 18, 2024 – FESCO transport group launched a regular twice monthly railway container service FESCO Baltic...

COSCO SHIPPING calls Port of La Spezia, with 20,000 TEU on regular basis

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) March 17, 2024 – Starting this month, COSCO SHIPPING’s 20,000 TEU container ships will begin regular calls at the...

COSCO SHIPPING adds Genoa port to Asia-Mediterranean Service

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 15, 2024 – COSCO SHIPPING has added new vessels to its Asia-Mediterranean Service (AEM1) which will also call...

New container line from Sfax to Morocco, Spain and Libya

Sfax, Tunisia (Ports Europe) March 4, 2024 – A regular container line from Tunisia’s Mediterranean port of Sfax to Morocco, Spain and Libya has been...

Grimaldi increases capacity on Brindisi-Igoumenitsa ferry service

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 29, 2024 – The Grimaldi Group is increasing capacity on its connections between Brindisi (Italy) and Igoumenitsa...

Circle’s Milos will be used in Augusta, Italy

Augusta, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) February 25, 2024 – The Milos Equipment Integration 4.0 software, produced by Circle Spa, has been installed in the...

CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd commit to Augusta, Sicily

Augusta, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) February 24, 2024 – International shipping lines CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd have both committed to using the port of...

ONE excludes Trieste, Piraeus from revised service

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 23, 2024 – The ONE (Ocean Network Express) container service which connects the Northern Adriatic with Egypt,...

Plans for a Turkmenbashi-Amirabad feeder line

Amirabad, Iran (Ports Europe) February 19, 2024 – Turkmenistan and Iran are planning to resume shipping between the Caspian Sea ports of Turkmenbashi and...

Alicante Port starts new maritime Ro-Ro service Alexandria, Egypt

Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2024 – The Port Authority of Alicante Port has announced a new maritime Ro-Ro service with the port of...

CargoBeamer new rail line to the port of Bari

Leipzig, Germany (Ports Europe) February 13, 2024 – CargoBeamer, a leading logistics service provider for transporting non-craneable semi-trailers by...

Possible new Ro-Ro line Burgas to Alexandria or Damietta

Cairo, Egypt (Ports Europe) February 11, 2024 – There is a possibility for the opening of a Ro-Ro (roll-on/roll-off) line between Bulgaria’s Black Sea...

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